Marrying A Secret Zillionaire Happy Ever After (Linsey)

Chapter 21

Chapter 21 What Exactly Happened Last Night

As Collin's lips hovered mere inches from Linsey's, his fingers clenched the bedsheets with an intensity that betrayed his inner turmoil.

He inhaled sharply, a desperate attempt to gather his waning self-control, and abruptly sat up.

Linsey, still lost in the depths of her dreams, shifted slightly in response. Her hands, which had been resting on Collin's arm, fell away as she turned to her other side in a soft rustle of sheets.

Collin seized this moment to gently disengage his hand and perched silently on the bed's edge, his breaths quick and

uneven.

The air was thick with her unique perfume, a seductive blend that tugged at his resolve like a siren's song.

Collin wrestled with his self-discipline, which seemed to crumble in her mere presence.

Was her allure so profound?

He had no idea what was happening, but staying wasn't an option. He had to go before he lost himself.

He had to go, and he had to go now.

He left the room swiftly, leaving Linsey in her serene slumber, oblivious

his own room, he strode into the bathroom. The shower's cold blast was immediate, the water cascading over him, a chilling torrent meant to quench the fire that her proximity had ignited, its

through his drenched hair, his

the fleeting seconds that followed, Linsey's radiant smile surfaced in his mind, her rosy lips vividly painted in his memory. The lingering, sweet

flew open, shock and disbelief painting

noticed that he was erect, which deepened the chaos swirling

Was he devolving

behind the eerie solitude of

shrill ring of her phone jerked Linsey awake the next

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What Exactly Happened

eyes, a fierce headache threatened to lure her back to

reached for her phone, her fingers brushing against the screen to silence the alarm that

at work."

upright, her mind snapping into

stark reminder of the orientation she

struggling to piece together her hazy return to her room last